Chicot the Jester by Alexandre Dumas père
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"I have never yet done anything for you." "Oh! you have discovered that at last." "Well, do you consent?" "To watch the lady?" "Yes." "Monseigneur, I confess I do not like the commission." "You offered to do me a service, and you draw back already!" "Because you want me to be a spy." "I ask you as a friend." "Monseigneur, this is a sort of thing that every man must do for himself, even if he be a prince." "Then you refuse?" "Ma foi! yes." The duke frowned. "Well, I will go myself," said he, "and if I am killed or wounded, I shall say that I begged my friend Bussy to. undertake the task, and that for the first time he was prudent." |
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